Improvement in egg-carriers



UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIoE.

JOHN L. STEVENS, OF CHICAGO, ASSIGNOR TO ROBERT H. WOOLLEY, OF SAME PLACE, AND N. J. MORRIS, OF WINNETKA, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN EGG-CARRIERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 154,294, dated August is, 1874 application filed January 20, 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J OHN L. STEvENs, of Chicago, in the county of Cook and in the State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Egg-Carriers; and do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings and to the letters of reference marked thereon, making apart of this specification.

ing otherpieces, B B and O O, inserted in them, as hereinafter described, to form pockets in which the eggs are placed and held. Each piece A has a series of slots, a, cut at regular intervals from the upper edge vertically downward for about one -fourth the width of the piece or strip. In the lower edge of the strip A, and opposite the middle of each space between the slots at a, are out two slots, 1) b, which run inclined. in opposite directions, and are of the same lengthas the slots a athat is, one-fourth the width of the strip. The strips B and O are exactly alike, and one-half the width of the strip A, and each has a series of slots, 01 cl, cut at regular intervals from one edge straight across onehalf the width of the strip. The strips A A being set at proper distances apart, parallel with each other, the strips B B are interlocked with them by the slots d d entering the slots to a, and the strips B B pressed down level with the upper edges of the strips A A. The strips 0 O are then inserted in the slots b b, and pressed upward in an inclined position till their lower edges are level with the lower edges of the strips A A, thereby completing the tray. A series of pockets are thus formed for the reception of the eggs, the ends of which rest between and are held by the lower strips 0 O, the same as with a spring-clasp. A smaller tray having only theinclined strips O O, in strips A of one-half the width, may be used on top, as shown in Fig. 1, or at the bottom, in which latter case the larger trays are to be reversed.

The trays may be folded together flat, so as to be shipped and save bulk.

I am aware that an egg-carrier made of strips of pasteboard notched and placed together to form square recesses at the top, and with strips inserted in the bottom of said recesses on an incline, to form a contracted bottom for each recess, is not new.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The within described egg-carrier, composed ofthe strips A, provided with vertical slots at at their upper edges, and with the inclined pairs of slots 12 b on their lower edges, which extend through the bottoms of the strips, and the strips Band 0 provided with slots 01, all substantially as and for the purposes herein set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this 15th day of December, 1873.

JOHN L. STEVENS. 

